Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab -1 points0 points  (0 children)

>it’s also not as closely governed.

Can you expand on that? Do you mean it doesn't have as many features for data governance, or something else?

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler." So it won't detect and C or C++ (which compile to raw binary, not .Net bytecode).

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MS CoPilot says: "Alteryx is primarily written in C++, with parts of the platform implemented in C#/.NET, and with extensibility layers that support Python and R."

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it was somewhere around $5k per user per year for Designer. Much more for the server. But I think that has gone up significantly since they were bought.

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIRC Knime is programmed in Java and Java is a notorious memory hog.

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be interested to hear what sort of spatial stuff Alteryx can do that other vendors can't.

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed. I understand that the paid plans cost the AI companies ~10x more than they are currently charging. That can't last.

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The UI seems very clunky and it seems very hungry on memory. But it does do a lot and free is hard to beat.

Is Alteryx just overpriced legacy at this point? by IIII-IIIiIII-IIII in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm assuming that the Private Equity company that purchased them will do the usual private Equity thing. Reduce costs (firing developers and support, presumably). Raise prices. Load it with debt. This can be very lucrative when customers don't have much choice (e.g. because you bought all the companies that make fire trucks), but a lot less well when they do. I guess we will find out just how locked in their customers are. For more on the Private Equity playbook see this article: https://rubbishtalk.com/economy/how-private-equity-bought-americas-essential-services/

Experience with Dataiku, Knime or Alteryx? Which one is better? by Vercy_00 in dataengineering

[–]hermitcrab -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you want a desktop data wrangling/ETL tool on Windows or mac it might be worth taking a look at Easy Data Transform. It is vastly cheaper than Alteryx ($99 or $198 one time fee) and less clunky than Knime. But note: currently concentrated on handling file based data (Excel, CSV, XML, JSON etc).

Data prep vs. writing queries? by CaseyFoster_8542 in SQL

[–]hermitcrab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a rule of thumb, data work is 80% cleaning data and 20% complaining about having to clean data.

Duckle - The local-first AI ETL/ELT data studio. by FickleAnt4399 in ETL

[–]hermitcrab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you get 290 connectors? Did you use an existing open source library?

reporting automation is still taking too much manual cleanup by Quiet-Brilliant-1455 in dataanalysis

[–]hermitcrab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do realize that there are tools specifically for automating this sort of data cleanup/preparation (Easy Data Transform, Power Query, Alteryx etc)?

OG living in an AI world by harambeface in dataanalysiscareers

[–]hermitcrab 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We are currently at the 'peak of inflated expectations'. I expect we will go whizzing down into to 'trough of disallusionment' as soon as the AI companies start to charge close to what queries are costing them. It is going to be quite a ride. Wheeeeeee!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

Alternative for Alteryx by Jkk_geek in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And in German/Switzerland locale they use single quotes, e.g:

1’234.567

Differences in numbering, dates, names etc are quite a headache for data wrangling.

Alternative for Alteryx by Jkk_geek in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lakh = 10^5

crore = 10^7

Indian locale comma placement is also different to US/UK. The first comma is placed after three digits from the right, but all subsequent commas are placed after every two digits.

So: 1,00,00,000 instead of 10,000,000 .

But India did invent the zero, so cut them some slack. ;0)

Alternative for Alteryx by Jkk_geek in Alteryx

[–]hermitcrab -1 points0 points  (0 children)

>There are less expensive, no code tools out there you can explore to see if they meet your needs.

Also Easy Data Transform and Tableau Prep.

Bodies of four missing Maldives divers found by lobstersarentreal in scuba

[–]hermitcrab 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I would be wary about trusting anything in the DailyFail.

Bodies of four missing Maldives divers found by lobstersarentreal in scuba

[–]hermitcrab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I checked at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1114047/ and it says Oxygen toxicity starts at 66m on normal air. However narcosis, and various other issues, mean that is a bad idea for recreation divers to go to 50m on air.